Wondering Wednesday.
I just read an article on an interview with Idris Elba. He was asked whether it is harder to be a man in Hollywood with the #metoo movement going strong. His response was golden "It's only hard when you're a man with something to hide." Brilliant.
But it also made me think:
What nobody seems to ever talk about really (at least not as prolonged and in detail or with as much attention or representation in the media) is the fact that men also experience harassment, sexual harassment, abuse and violence on a shockingly high level. And not necessarily from other men... And that when ever they do come out and say they are being sexually abused/harassed by their (female) partner they basically get either laughed out of town, accused of lying, told to man up and not be a wussbag or all of the above.
It's sad really, since equality (at least in my head) means equal rights, equal treatment and equal responsibility for all... Yes, women get abused and harassed and shouldn't have to put up with it on any level - but neither should men.
If we want to have a healthy society we need to acknowledge that anything can happen to anyone regardless of gender, religion, skin color or nationality and that if we want to have the equality we seem to crave we need to actually treat people equally.
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This is what happens, my friends, when you drop a bottle of sparkling wine on the tiles. It explodes EVERYWHERE and cuts you in any number of weird places! I could possibly be finding the glass for days. I’m just glad it wasn’t the Moet and Chandon, I may have cried if I dropped that one...